Another reason to butt out

Best HealthMay 7, 2008

Quitting smoking isn’t easy. And you need as much positive reinforcement as you can get. So, here’s another reason to ditch the smokes: quitting significantly reduces the risk of death from coronary heart disease and smoking-related cancers within a mere five years, according to new research from the Harvard School of Public Health. The World […]

Quitting smoking isn’t easy. And you need as much positive reinforcement as you can get.

So, here’s another reason to ditch the smokes: quitting significantly reduces the risk of death from coronary heart disease and smoking-related cancers within a mere five years, according to new research from the Harvard School of Public Health.

The World Health Organization projects by 2030 that tobacco-attributable deaths will annually account for three-million deaths in industrialized countries and seven-million in developing countries,” the authors write.

We recently reported that butting out lowers the risk of depression and respiratory ailments like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, too.